2004 CAMLA Essay Prize winner, Daniel Yap, examines the legal issues that arise from the ACCC's recommendation that Telstra divests its hybrid fibre coaxial (HFC) network and 50 per cent ownership of Foxtel to encourage competition across the pay tv, telephony and broadband sectors.

Sarah Krasnostein, highly commended in the 2004 CAMLA Essay Prize, discusses whether it is appropriate for defamation law to apply objective tests to determine liability in circumstances where the meaning of the text is subjective.

Yi-Jen Chen, highly commended int eh 2004 CAMLA Essay Prize, considers the impacts of the recent decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in United States of America v Branford C. Coucilman.

David Chan considers the ' Uniting and Strenthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA Patriot Act) of 2001' and the potential for personal information in the posession of a US outsource provider to be disclosed to the FBI.

Bridget Edghill reviews the action taken by they Victorian Government in relation to alleged unfair terms in mobile phone contracts

A Cheat's Guide to the Multichannelling Review

Carloyn Lidgerwood distills some of the diverging views emerging from the Federal Government's reviews of the prohibition on commercial broadcaster multichannelling on their existing digital spectrum.

Digital Rights Management

On 13 October 2004 the Network Insight Institute held a smeinar entitled "Digital Right: Management & Co-Operation" centred on issues concerning the distribution and cataloguing of digital goods and co-operation in their management. Katherine Sainty and Clare Cunliffe consider some of the issues discussed in this seminar.

I'll Have Two Playmates and and Emoticon Please"

Nick Abrahams, Glenda Stubbs and Alan Arnott provide an overview of mobile content regulation in Australia.

Looking Forward: Challenges for Telecommunications Regulation

Holly Raiche looks at the themes and ourcomes of ACA Self-Regulation Summit heldinAugust 2004in Sydney.

Media Ownership Laws - What Change?

Raani Costello looks at the Howard Government's pre-election position on changes to media ownership legislation with a view to what might be coming up.

Open Source Software - Understanding the Risks

Nick Abrahams and Alan Arnott explore the legal issues associated with rolling out open source software solution.

Caroline Lovell and Toby Ryston-Pratt consider the take-up of broadband in Australia and Government initiatives.

Regulators, Mount Up! VoIP in the Asian Context

Nick Abrahams and Brett Farrell conside the emergence of Voice over IP and how it may operate within a regulatory framework.

What I Saw at the (Digital) Revolution

Edited address by Dawn Airey, Managing Director, Sky Networks to the Australian Broadcasting Authority's Conference held in Canberra in June 2004.

Digital TV: The Reviews. Whatever Happend to the PC Report?

This edited address by Stuart Simpson to the Network Insight Seminar in June 2004 discusses the Australian experience with digital television.

Government Agencies and Regulators: Using Personal Information

Danet Khuth and Duncan Giles review the determination of the Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner in Complaint Determinations No 5 of 2004 and its potential impact in relation to the disclosure of information by government agencies.

Leon Sher and Niranjan Arasaratnam critique the proposed 20 year extension of copyright announced as part of the recent Australia United States Free Trade Agreement

Broadband Wars

David McCulloch provides a prespective on the recent ACCC moves against Telstra's wholesale and retail broadband pricing

Sexing it Up": Lord Hutton's Report on the BBC and the Implications for the Australian Media

This is the transcript of a speech made by Peter Manning at the meeting of CAMLA on 30 March at Malleson Stephen Jaques in Sydney

Casenote: Electromagnetic Radiation and Telecommunications Network

Mary-Ellen Horvath considers the recent decision of the NSW Land and Environment Court in Hutchison Telecommunications (Australia) Pty Ltd v Baulkham Hills Shire Council

Casenote: The Panel Decision and the Substantial Problems of Television Broadcast Copyright

Brendan Plant and Niranjan Arasaratnam review the High Court's recent decision on the "Panel" case, and provide some comments on its implications for industry.

Knowledge Cycles of Digital Television in Australia

In this editedversion of her paper presented at the Communications Research Forum 2003, Cate Dowd looks at the developement of Australian digital television and some future directions.